NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – New Rochelle drivers could soon see enforcement cameras on several traffic lights.

The City Council on Tuesday approved issuing bonds for the $72,000 cost. Authorization to install traffic cameras to enforce red lights is among several items the city is sending to New York state as part of its 2013 legislative program.

The council also approved issuing $1.5 million in bonds to buy a firetruck, a van to transport senior citizens and vehicles for the Public Works Department, and to repair storm drains and sanitary sewers throughout the city.

The traffic cameras and other items already are included in the city's 2013 capital budget. The cost breakdown is:

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Traffic cameras are just another form of Policing for Profit as Capitalism distorts our Justice System. These companies are bottom-feeders and take a 40% cut of the tickets while creating MORE dangerous intersections by fixing the lengths of yellow lights to entrap drivers. You can read about how private companies and crooked politicians have turned our Police forces on their ear in every attempt to squeeze money out of the general public at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-privatized-police-state.html

Just curious where these cameras will be placed. I say, they should be on QuakerRidge and North; on Quaker Ridge where Ward & Albert Leoanrd are; All along Pinebrook; North near Wilmot.There is no need to put them anywhere else as there is an overwhelming police presence in the West End already.